229339 Immigrant Health Care and the California Health Interview Survey

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 10:30 AM - 10:35 AM

David Grant, PhD , California Health Interview Survey, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, CA
The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is the nation's largest state health survey and – because of California's diversity – provides a rich population-based sample to explore differences in healthcare access and utilization among many immigrant populations. As such, CHIS presents researchers with a unique opportunity to examine health disparities through multiple lenses, including race/ethnicity, geographic, social, and economic status. Researchers, public health departments, legislators, community organizations and advocacy groups throughout the country rely on CHIS data to inform public policy. This session will highlight research conducted with CHIS 2005 and 2007 data to assess and address health disparities among immigrant groups. Participants will learn how CHIS data can be used to address immigrant health disparities not only for state and local areas in California but throughout the nation.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe insurance and utilization rates of undocumented immigrant populations. 2. Identify the advantages of using the California Health Interview Survey for health data on numerically small population groups. 3. To identify differences in healthcare access and utilization among immigrant groups by lawful permanent residency status, and determine the relative contribution of predisposing, enabling, need, and unobserved factors.

Keywords: Data Collection, Immigrants

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: David Grant, PhD, is the director of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). In this role, he oversees survey research projects and works both with researchers and data collection vendors. CHIS is the largest state health survey ever conducted in the United States. Previously, he was an assistant professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University and a Survey Research Manager at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). In addition to his involvement in conducting transit surveys, Grant was the Project Coordinator for the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) and its Los Angeles component, conducted at the UCLA Center for the Study of Urban Poverty. Grant's research has focused on urban demographic and economic restructuring, particularly in Los Angeles. When not at the Center, Grant enjoys the wonder of parenthood with his wife Suzanna and their children Natalie and Nolan, and is an avid hockey player and mountain biker. Grant received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his master's and doctorate degrees (1998) in Sociology at UCLA.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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